On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Ed Lawson wrote:
> While such machines can do many things very well with Linux, I doubt they have
> the memory to run desktop apps under KDE or Gnome. So if that was an intended
> use, there is an issue. I expect they are machines with small HDs and at most
> 32M of memory, most likely 16M.
In which case they won't run Windows any better. But you can certainly
run an X session with low resource requirements using say, FVWM as your
window manager, in 16M. And so long as you don't go hog-wild, you can run
your desktop apps too. Configure with plenty of swap space, and you'll
run just fine.
> Not a naysayer by any means, but I believe intended use is a point of
> consideration. Giving people a 486 or P120 with 16 or 32 Meg set up
Windows won't even realistically run on a 486... Win95 will "work", but
forget about using it for anything more than notepad.
--
Derek Martin
System Administrator
Mission Critical Linux
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